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Darcy Michael @ Yuk Yuk's

Psst! Don't tell anyone, but Darcy Michael is a fag. 

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Proud FM Night @ Absolute Comedy

BY Sean Davidson

A Pride event? In August? Forgive me, but isn't that about two months later than this planet's usual celebrations of all things rainbow-colored?

Hot Lawyer @ Comedy Bar

BY Sean Davidson

Lauren Ash and Adam Cawley started out making up songs about hard-bodied barristers and ended up with Hot Lawyer — a sexed-up legal drama with the Second City vets (and ...

Kathy Griffin @ Massey Hall, Aug. 8

BY Sean Davidson

One can't help but wonder at what point Kathy Griffin's fame will disqualify her from her own trademark "D list." 

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Barack to the Future

It’s gratifying to see the remaining two female performers of the mainstage gang get a chance to show off in Second City’s latest revue. Not that Karen Parker ...

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Best of Homegrown at Absolute Comedy

Even though the folks on stage kept calling it a competition, the all-Canadian “best of homegrown” show put on at Absolute Comedy on Friday really wasn’t a competition at all. It had been, but that had been a week prior when the same nine comics did, in some...

Comedy Clinic at Fox and Fiddle

It’s tempting to pin the exact, even strict way that Jason Blanchard runs open mic shows on his military background. Upstairs at the Fox and Fiddle on a Sunday night, it all seems so precise — from the eight-minute warning (not ten, not five...

The Dark Show at Absolute Comedy

The Dark Show — a new and monthly to-do at the club, put together by host Andrew Evans — is a sort of free-for-all for comics, a chance to get up to their elbows in the sort of blue-and-black stuff that might not fly in the more PG-13 ... (2)

Last Cullen Standing?

Unlike his more-or-less monthly appearances at the Drake Hotel — where he is in his element, goofing with an attentive crowd in between absurd power ballads — Sean Cullen looks a little out of place on Last Comic Standing. Not ...

Bad Dog Improv Summit

One of three out-of-town troupes coming in this week for the Bad Dog Improv Summit, Montreal’s Without Annette arrive at the four-day mini fest fresh from the Montreal Fringe, which saw the debut of their latest long-form offering, Argument With a ...

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